Hanger-support.



G. I. ROOKWOOD & H. G. CARLSON.

HANGER SUPPORT. I

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, 1910.

989,808. Patented Apr. 18, 1911.

[amen-6073s George I. R 0c kwobd. Min 56 I h jalrnar 5. Carlson.

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sa'm CARLSQQEASSIGNOKEEO sm' aocxwoonz ,menn-suiiromr a ToflZZ-ephbmi'tmWflfiDmem: p t and a-locking plate is provided with ends; Be-ait 'known that'we,- Gnonon1 I. Rook- 16, 16 arranged to be-in'serted between the wool) and Hum/rant}; CAn soiw, -citizens of vertical arms 8 ofthe U -shapedframework the United States res'din'g at Worcester, in below the plate 10. 'The locking plate 15' is .5 the {county .ofW-orcester and Commonwealth designed tobe supported upon the bottom 6 of Massachusetts, have invented a new and 'of the framework 7, and is provided .upon useful mprovement 'in- -Hanger-Suppcrt's,. its upper surface with teeth 17 arranged to of'whic the'followingis a specification, acengage the serrations 14 upon the sliding companied by -';drawings forming apart of plates 10 when the plate-15 is raised by the 10 the same, in' which -if insertion of the screw threaded end 5 of the Figure ljis a side view of our improved rod' 3. The distance between the supporthanger support in position. Fig. 2 is a 111g hooks 11 is varied to correspond with the side; view on anenlarged scale of the hanger W dth of the supports to be embraced by' the support." Fig.3 is .an end view of the same hooks. The plates may be locked. from 15 il -he Sealeof Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isa top view longitudinal movement when the hooks have also onthe scajle ofFigrQ, and Fig. '5 1s ade' b n applied to the support by the locking 'tached perspective view of the lockingplater plate 15 when it is broughtinto contact with Similar referelfce charactersrefer to simithe plates 10-: by the screw threaded hanger lar parts inthe diil'eren't figures. V rod 3. a 20 Du'r invention relates to improved means The sl ding plates 10 are-provided atthe of support for a hanger from a horizontaleH l opposite the hooks 11 with rejections v surface, said support provided with up- 18 whlch prevent the removal 0 the lates -75. wardly turned hooks arranged to engage the 10 r h r m work .7." Onev side 0 each flanges of supporting beams, such as I 'arm' 8 of the framework 7 nearer the prob s, d it gonsists'in the construction e'ction18 is notched at 19, as shown in Fig.

and arrangement of parts as hereinafter de 3, to allow the passage of the projections 18 3 scribed and i pointed out in the annexed nd give a g r r g of adjUStmfllflbet i j I tween the hooks 11. The projection 18 may, Referring to the accompanying drawings, therefore, slide past one of the arms 8 and 30 1 is a section of an I beam supported at be pp by the other h a g r eithen end in the usual manner, not shown, also may be adjusted horizontally on the. and supporting on its upper surfaoe the floor hanger support between the hooks 11 by re- 2. The hanger comprises a rod 3,, in the leaslng the plate 15 and movin the framepresent instance provided with a supporting Work 7 until the desired position of the 35. eye 4 and a screw threaded end 5 which is hanger is attained, when the plate.15 is inserted in a screw threaded central opening g n locked n g g t h he S ril- I through the horizontal bott'omlfi of the U.- tions 14 on the platesl0. shaped framework 7 of the hanger support; We claim, 7 The framework 7 comprises the horizontal The combination with a hanger, of ;a 40 bottom 6 and at the end of the bottom is a hanger su porting framework, a pairof sup pair of parallel vertical arms 8, each. pair porting p ates within said framework, aporconnected at the top bya bar 9. Between tion ofthe lower edge of each plate serrated, the arms 8, 8 are inserted the supporting and a locking plate having teeth arrangedto Y plates 10. The plates 10 areheldin conengage said serrations, said locking plate 45 tact between the arms 8 and are turned upheld in said engagement by -the' screw .wardly at the ter ends to prOvide hooks 11 threaded endfof said hanger. V adapted to eng' e'theflanges 12, 12 of the I Dated this twenty-ninth-day fJg'm -y beam 1." The p ates 10, 10 are arranged to 1910.

slide horizontally in-order to vary the dis- GEORGE I; RQCK 50 tance between the hooks llitoaccommodate 'HJ MARG. CARL-SON. them to different supporting means. i Witnesses:

'Aiportion of the loweraedge 13 of each PnNnnorn'Concg, plate 10 is serrated at 14, as shown in 2, NELLIE' 4 

